Sentences with phrase «theoretical justification»

Secondly — and more importantly — these ideas of sensitivity lack a fundamental theoretical justification.
Provide nothing yourself but bald assertions without a semblance of theoretical justification by reference to actual literature?
Thirdly, as a slogan, Bush's «compassionate conservatism» lacked a deeper theoretical justification that could be used as a basis for long - term policy - making.
While charter schools lacked clear theoretical justification, vouchers rested firmly on the impressive market - based intellectual foundation provided by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman.
Apart from the general capacity of models to reproduce realistic circulations, what are the empirical and / or theoretical justifications got these parameterisations?
Cap - weighting in stocks has a lot of theoretical justification, but when you use the same theories and apply them to bonds, it just becomes more obvious that the rationale is stupid.»
AFAIK... the theoretical justifications that the incidence of corporate taxes is largely on labour are arguments relating to open economies.
Witte argues that this predominantly secular view of marriage provided the theoretical justification for the present - day transformation of Anglo - American marriage law.
What he denied himself was any theoretical justification for these practical judgments.
It may be that, for them, the theoretical justification is irrelevant.
I'd be very appreciative is someone could describe to me any formally recognised methods and processes for verifying empirical claims that pertain to the political realm, and the theoretical justifications behind them.
This is regarded as providing a theoretical justification for NHS reforms carried out by subsequent governments, particularly the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
The authors of the paper developed a theoretical justification for the occurrence of the linear ME effect based on the Ginzburg - Landau theory and explained the previously large experimental value of the effect.
But, at a base price of $ 23,925 for a barebones front - wheel - drive example, it's already $ 6,000 more to buy than an equivalently denuded Sentra, and that's before you add the AWD that would at least provide some theoretical justification for its jacked up chassis.
There's some theoretical justification for investing in all public companies in the world in proportion to their market weight.
Theoretical justification was provided by the Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti in his treatise On Painting (1435).
The theoretical justification of such a proposed scheme can be found in Extreme Value Theory.
My question was I guess more whether it could really be ruled out, or whether it was obviously a ridiculous speculation on some other grounds...... As to theoretical justifications, I would guess the biggest criticism would be that we don't see similar behavior in climate models, right?
Although it has been a common practice in studying paleoclimate data to use proxy data from, for example, an ice core in Antarctica, to represent global climate after dividing the former by a factor of ∼ 2 or by a model - determined, latitude - dependent scaling factor, theoretical justification is only beginning to be emphasized (22).
The theoretical justification for the criminal sanction is that the corporation can be ascribed the necessary mental state (here, in part foreseeability of harm) when a senior officer is shown to be in possession of such a state.
Because the theoretical justifications for stare decisis depend largely on publication, the FISA courts should publish any opinion that they consider binding precedent.
So long as there is no subject who can be identified in terms of incentive theory as an efficient allocation, then the question becomes why should they be allocated «randomly» just for the sake of allocation, and not on the basis of any theoretical justification, being it utilitarian or naturalistic?
The comorbidity of abrasive personality traits with other personality disorders should not, in and of itself, constitute an argument against the validity of a cluster of personality traits constituting a personality disorder, at least until the theoretical justifications for reducing comorbidity among personality disorders have been better elucidated.
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